Common use of ESPs Clause in Contracts

ESPs. Each ESP, who is scheduled to work more than six hundred (600) hours yearly, shall be granted sick leave in the following manner. Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, quarantine at home, serious illness or death in the immediate family or household, or birth, adoption, or placement for adoption. An ESP may use up to thirty (30) sick leave days directly following the birth of a child without having to provide the District with medical certification. Up to thirty (30) sick leave days may be used for adoption and placement for adoption. For purposes of this Article, immediate family shall be defined as: parents, spouse, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, domestic partners, and legal guardians. Sick Leave # Days 12-Month Employees 12 10-Month Employees 10 Sick leave for eligible part-time ESPs shall be prorated. When a 10-month employee accumulates sick days after the first year of employment, the Board shall exchange one (1) sick day for a third personal leave day annually. It is understood that no 10-month employee shall ever have more than three (3) accumulated personal leave days. Unused sick leave shall accumulate up to a maximum of two hundred forty (240) days for IMRF purposes. The Board may require a physician’s certificate as a basis for pay for personal illness after an absence of three (3) days or as deemed necessary in other cases. Each ESP shall be furnished a written statement setting forth the amount of sick leave available during the school term, or before September 30. Accumulative sick leave shall automatically terminate on the date that an ESP’s resignation or termination becomes effective. An ESP who is absent because of disability or incapacity shall be deemed temporarily disabled, starting from the first day of disability, in accordance with the following: Employed in District Temporary Disability 0 thru 1 year - 30 consecutive work days. 2 thru 10 years - 60 consecutive work days or the exhaustion of paid sick leave, whichever happens last. 10 or more years - less than 90 consecutive work days or for less than 90 out of 120 work days from the same illness or incapacity, or the exhaustion of paid sick leave, whichever happens last. If a temporarily disabled ESP does not have sufficient accumulated sick leave days or unpaid leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act to cover the duration of his/her absence, the Board shall grant the disabled ESP an unpaid leave of absence for the period of temporary disability, but not to exceed the number of days shown above as calculated from the onset of the disability. In its sole and non-grievable discretion, the Board may grant any ESP who remains incapacitated after the temporary disability leave (or accumulated sick leave) expires an extended unpaid leave of absence under any terms and conditions deemed appropriate.